The heat felt like a nuclear bomb just exploded on the hottest day of the summer of Chicago Illinois with a population of people finding any way to cool down, creating inventions just to have a little breeze. Trying as hard as possible in a time where the country was living through a great depression and the country had almost no money.
The Baker family once lived in a middle class household but got hit harder than a punch by the great depression in the summer of 1930, losing their home by not being able to pay their bills, living in public housing available within the city, not being able to buy a lot of food for the family.
Bob was a father who lost his job as a teacher in a district that was not able to pay its employees and he was not able to find a job for weeks. When he was able to get a new job it wasn't high paying but he had to provide for his wife Karen and 12 year old son Steve, needing to figure out ways to save what little money he was given each week even if his financial problems wouldn't be fixed for over a decade.
What inspired me to make this story was how one economic shift can run a once financially stable family. My writing process was just reading how people lived during this time and creating a family with that information. Literary devices I used were hyperbole by exaggerating a lot of this story. I structured this story by it not being too long but still giving a story and I also chose for it to not have a happy ending because life during that time